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Using client-side caching in ColdFusion

The cheapest request you can think of is the one where you actually don’t need to provide an answer – because you have answered it before and you know that facts haven’t changed. Now server-side caching is one approach, but in that case you just save yourselves the actual computing, you still have to retrieve your answer from the cache and deliver it to the client. Client-side caching is much more elegant.